Ezekiel 42:5 — Bible Verse (KJV)

“Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.”

Ezekiel 42:5 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

Ezekiel 42:5 in 6 Bible Translations

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Ezekiel 42:5 WEB — World English Bible (2000)

“Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these more than from the lower and the middle in the building.”

Ezekiel 42:5 — World English Bible

Ezekiel 42:5 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

“Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.”

Ezekiel 42:5 — American Standard Version

Ezekiel 42:5 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“And the upper chambers <FI>are<Fi> short, for the galleries contain more than these, than the lower, and than the middle one, of the building;”

Ezekiel 42:5 — Young's Literal Translation

Ezekiel 42:5 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

“And the upper cells, because the galleries encroached on them, were shorter than the lower, and than the middle-most of the building.”

Ezekiel 42:5 — Darby Translation

Ezekiel 42:5 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

“Nowe the chambers aboue were narower: for those chambers seemed to eate vp these, to wit, the lower, and those that were in the middes of the building.”

Ezekiel 42:5 — Geneva Bible

Ezekiel 42:5 in Context — Ezekiel 42

3 C’était vis-à-vis des vingt coudées du parvis intérieur, et vis-à-vis du pavé du parvis extérieur, là où se trouvaient les galeries des trois étages.

4 Devant les chambres, il y avait une allée large de dix coudées, et une voie d’une coudée; leurs portes donnaient au septentrion.

5 Les chambres supérieures étaient plus étroites que les inférieures et que celles du milieu du bâtiment, parce que les galeries leur ôtaient de la place.

6 Il y avait trois étages, mais il n’y avait point de colonnes, comme les colonnes des parvis; c’est pourquoi, à partir du sol, les chambres du haut étaient plus étroites que celles du bas et du milieu.

7 Le mur extérieur parallèle aux chambres, du côté du parvis extérieur, devant les chambres, avait cinquante coudées de longueur;

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What Does Ezekiel 42:5 Mean?

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